Free School Lunch

One of the things I like about this country is that not just schools are free but nutritional (but simple) lunches are offered to all school children for free too. This is to ensure they all get at least one warm and healthy meal a day, and they claim it has improved the learning too. Now England and Scotland are about to follow. Read more about this here.

I think the whole thing started because pretty much everyone was low-income in Finland back then (Finland was one of the poorest countries in Europe) but I like how it is the same for everybody. We don’t grow up with school uniforms here either and may even find them “stiff” but like the lunch I think they are great for one thing: they make everyone equal, no division between kids due to what parents do. But it is great that the ones who otherwise maybe wouldn’t get any food get meals in America too!

that is upsetting!
I read about some free lunch trial in India (can’t remember were it was), where families with less means were encouraged to send their children to school with the one free meal. Apparently it worked well until there was some huge food poisoning (could have been just a human mistake or misfortune?) but people got very suspicious. Sad when good potential doesn’t work out!